Changelog

Assigned CML-listed compatible parts and batteries to 91 FTX models: 6,700 part links, 199 batteries

Homepage lead feature in both heroes: Team Associated RB10 Retro and RC10 4WD Factory Team kits (in stock) replace the B84.1 pre-order pair

Buying guide articles widened to 1040px; each pick's write-up now sits beside its product card on 9 live guides.

Buying guides hub: six Coming soon cards flipped to live links, including the Cheap RC cars guide.

Published hand-written How to Charge LiPo Batteries Safely guide: seven steps, voltage and 1C infographics.

Published hand-written MJX Hyper Go Range Explained guide: eight models, model-number key, speed chart.

Published hand-written Best RC Monster Truck UK 2026 guide: seven picks from 1:20 to 1:8, scale guide.

Published hand-written Best RC Car for Kids by age guide with age-band infographic and seven picks.

Published hand-written Fast RC Cars UK guide: seven 50 mph+ picks, speed chart and hero image.

Added 28 new Team Associated products from CML: RC10 6x6 F1 kit, RC28F kit, RC28 Zoom RTR and 25 spares.

Listed 524 UDI RC products from CML (27 cars, boats and drones plus spares); 143 shown out of stock.

Listed 158 in-stock CML tank and construction lines (Huina, Korody, Brother Tank, Taigen, RC4WD) as new products.

Listed 27 CML ready-to-fly RC planes (Volantex, Mo-Fly, Kootai, Top Gun) as new products in RC Planes.

New indexable page /group-buy/: group buy request sheet, links to bundle builder and track finder.

Homepage kits tile and range index now link the RC car kits category instead of /rc-car-kits/, which returned 404.

Rebuilt /request-a-bundle-deal/ in the v7 design with the request form first; new title, description and h1.

Product page Key Specs rebuilt as compact tiles with icons and definition-list markup, on WordPress and Kyosho (Lightning) product pages.

Kyosho product pages: bundle deals moved below the description and collapsed; link index under images now shows battery, parts and bundle counts.

Attached supplier product images to 85 more products left imageless by the latest crawler imports.

Aligned older page templates to v7 styles; listing h1 no longer includes the CATEGORY badge; new 404 page with links.

Binned 10 ERP-range products published at a £999 placeholder price; 7 more set out of stock to match the supplier.

Listed 11 ERP Distribution products missing from RCUK, four as variable products with colour or size options.

Rebuilt /tracks/ finder and 73 surface, venue and class archives: UK-first list, no product columns, new title and description.

Rebuilt /refer-a-friend/: clear offer, share tools, progress grid; corrected reward to 10 pounds; new title and description.

Rebuilt /contact-us/: email and chat routes, company details, shop reviews, answer links; new title and meta description.

Footer now shows company name, number with Companies House link, registered office and dispatch facts on every page; payments heading removed from outlines.

New site-wide footer on WordPress pages: 35 internal links (departments, brand pages, guides, Body Shop, tracks) replace 3; ThemeFarmer external link removed.

Homepage A/B test home_v8 started: half of visitors to / see an image carousel hero instead of the statement hero.

Redesigned RC Buying Guides hub: graffiti hero, artwork on all 25 guide cards, three-column grid. Styling only, content unchanged.

Updated images on 138 ERP range products from supplier originals: 307 images added or enlarged, with alt text.

Renamed 101 generic Alpha engine spare titles to include brand and engine fitment, e.g. Backplate to Alpha Backplate (T850).

Rewrote 12 empty ERP-supplied brand landing pages (J&T Bearings, ERP, Alpha, Pro-Motion, Klinik and others) with intro, ranges, FAQs and titles.

Assigned brands in both schemas plus Brand attribute to 529 ERP Distribution range products; Product markup now carries brand.

Redesigned mini RC cars page: hero with jump links, picks first, live prices, FAQ schema; removed extra H1 product grid.

New product: Kyosho Outlaw Renegade Pro Kit listed as pre-order (BackOrder schema) and added to homepage featured models.

New site header (v7) live on all pages: products, categories, landing pages, guides; slim header on basket and checkout.

Restructured Rlaarlo brand page: shop-by-range index, five range sections, new copy and six FAQs.

Restructured FTX brand page: shop-by-range index, seven range sections and a shorter intro.

Restructured Team Associated brand page: shop-by-range index, six range sections, new copy and seven FAQs.

New product page buy box layout live; batteries, parts and bundle links moved under the product images on desktop.

Header menu: Event Calendar plus Help section (service product, Diagnostic Bay, guides); track pages list upcoming events

Homepage tiles section now four: adds internal links to RC Body Shop and drift cars category.

Homepage replaced with v7 design on Lightning and WordPress: new H1, section order, internal links, FAQ and ItemList schema.

Added battery lists, upsells and cross-sells to 77 Kyosho vehicles; moved 7 kits into the Models category tree.

Homepage gains a help band linking the troubleshooting guide, Diagnostic Bay and buying guides hub.

Diagnostic Bay page now links to the RC car troubleshooting guide; guide already linked back.

Calendar and event pages redesigned with product shelves by event type; Event schema dates fixed to valid ISO

Restructured Kyosho brand page: shop-by-range index, seven range sections with copy and links, eight FAQs, shorter intro.

Swapped one product in each of the Best RC Cars and Best Off-Road guides; Rlaarlo now limited to Omni-Terminator Alloy.

Linked three new guides from the RC buying guides hub: two new cards, troubleshooting card flipped live.

Published RC Car Troubleshooting guide: nine symptoms with cause and fix, linked to the Diagnostic Bay.

Published hand-written buying guide Best Off-Road RC Cars UK 2026 with seven in-stock picks, comparison table and FAQ.

Published hand-written buying guide Best RC Cars UK 2026 with seven in-stock picks, comparison table and FAQ.

Team Associated RC10B84.1 and B84.1D kit prices raised to 589.99 and 549.99; bundle discounts increased to match.

Shop reviews carousel on product pages: shown beside product reviews on phones, shorter cards, source no longer named or linked.

Added four tiered bundle deals and Build your own bundle link to Team Associated RC10B84.1 and B84.1D kit pages.

Team Associated RC10 Factory Team Blue Edition kit price cut from 429.99 to 423.99 to undercut Modelsport.

Added tiered bundle deals (44 tiers) and Build your own bundle link to 13 Team Associated kit product pages.

Moved Trustpilot reviews carousel into the buy box column on all product pages; overall score line hidden while under 4.0.

Added Brushless Conversion Kit and Brushless Pro Upgrade bundle tiers to 23 Kyosho Fazer ready-to-run product pages.

Added 327 upcoming UK RC events to the /calendar/ post type: BRCA, club series, model flying, drone racing, boats, shows

Rebuilt bundle tiers on 44 Kyosho kits and Fazer cars as three distinct levels; added Create a bundle button to product pages.

Added Trustpilot shop reviews carousel (10 quotes, overall score, profile link) after FAQs on all product pages, WordPress and Lightning.

Repriced 57 Kyosho vehicles against Wheelspin and Modelsport: 40 reduced to undercut the market, 17 raised.

Bundle Deals panel now renders on Kyosho product pages (Lightning); existing bundle tiers visible to customers again.

Added a homepage banner linking to the RC Body Shop, between Shop by category and New Arrivals: its first internal link.

Put 19 Fastrax paint, masking and body tool products back in stock, matching CML supplier stock.

Published RC Body Shop hub and eight Spray Booth how-to guides at /rc-body-shop/; indexable and added to the page sitemap.

Added 10 product categories for RC paint and bodywork (spray paint, masking, tools, decals, lights, clear and HPI shells); 1,737 products filed.

Repriced both Maverick QuantumRX Rally Cars from 289.99 sale to 314.98, sale price removed.

Added Quantum RX Conversion Set to Compatible Parts and as a bundle on six Maverick QuantumR car pages.

Elementor stylesheets 404 again from 03:29 on 29 Sept; restored 06:46 and isolated staging2 uploads to stop nightly deletion.

Restored 22 missing Elementor stylesheets including the site-wide kit CSS, which had been returning 404 since early 28 Sept.

Categorised 969 spare parts into brand parts categories (937 Kyosho, 24 SANWA, 8 Mini-Z). Kyosho Parts went 3,326 to 4,263. Add-only; they were in top-level Parts & Accessories with no brand bucket.

Added HPI Nano-TTR series category under HPI Mini RC Cars (12 x 1:64 micro cars: Mustang RTR-X, BMW M3 E30, 2002 Turbo) with copy, title and H1

Added HPI Mini RC Cars series category (Nano-TTR 1:64, Mini King Flux, Venture18, Stage-D24; 32 products) with copy, title and H1

Created 14 brand series category pages with copy, 192 products: HPI drift/WR8/Savage/Baja/Venture/Bullet/Sport 3/Vorza; Maverick Quantum/Mini/Phantom; Blackzon Smyter/Slyder/Spryte

Added 333 new LRP and Mstyle products (Vestergaard supplier lines) with new brand terms and Parts by brand categories

PDP parts and batteries rails now load 8 with the page and fetch the rest on expand; 904KB to 313KB.

Upgraded /articles/rc-car-scales-explained/: replaced static product shortcode with per-scale showcase (7 scales, real in-stock cars + live 'Shop by scale' category links)

Lightning PDP now renders every assigned compatible part and adds a Recommended Batteries section.

Added Kyosho tune-up parts to 151 model pages, 92 of which had no Compatible Parts before.

Attached supplier product images to 937 more products left imageless by yesterday's crawler imports.

Attached real distributor product images to 2,121 products that had no image or the holding graphic.

Listed 71 HPI Stage-D10 spare parts and linked them to all seven Stage-D10 model pages.

Extended HPI Compatible Parts to 38 more models via chassis-family matching, adding 501 internal links.

Condensed the /micro-and-mini-rc-cars FAQ into a collapsed accordion matching the homepage pattern, added RTR-vs-kit question

Expanded /micro-and-mini-rc-cars to 36 product cards covering the full HPI Nano-TTR and Team Associated 1/28th ranges

Recategorised 5 Team Associated 1/28th cars out of Parts and Accessories into RC Cars, RC Trucks and 1/28th scale

Added HPI Stage-D24 drift cars to 1/24th scale, RC Cars, Ready to Run and 100-150 categories with HPI brand attribute

Added 28 lazy-loaded product images with alt text to /micro-and-mini-rc-cars, previously imageless

Added 21 product cards, a Stage-D24 hero feature and 6 recommendation blocks to /micro-and-mini-rc-cars

Added 27 internal links from /micro-and-mini-rc-cars to scale categories, brand pages and mini RC products

Added Rank Math title, meta description and focus keyword to /micro-and-mini-rc-cars, previously unset

Rewrote thin /micro-and-mini-rc-cars page from 250 to 1600 words covering Kyosho Mini-Z, HPI, Team Associated, WL Toys

Disambiguated 139 identically-named HPI spare titles with model suffix, e.g. Main Chassis (Sport 3).

Deduped 10 HPI models: retired duplicate listings with 301s, corrected 5 supplier SKUs.

Added Compatible Parts blocks linking 88 tune-up parts across 52 HPI model product pages.

Published 'Best RC Cars for Adults UK 2026' guide (/articles/best-rc-cars-for-adults-uk-2026/) + flipped hub card to live

De-orphaned /rc-buying-guides/ hub: added to XML sitemap, footer link (sitewide), homepage CTA band, + backlinks from 11 guides/pages

Launched /rc-buying-guides/ hub — master page linking 8 live guides + 11 planned; shared card CSS via mu-plugin

Reverted Kyosho Ultima Pro K.30626B to 1/10th scale category after confirming it is a 1:10 kit

Backfilled Scale, Drive, Build State, Vehicle Type and Motor specs on 1,383 model product pages.

Moved Kyosho Ultima Pro from 1/10th to 1/28th scale; set RC Cars as primary category on both products

Recategorised Kyosho Ultima Pro into 1/10th and Team Associated RC28 Zoom into 1/28th under RC Cars; both set in stock

Deduped 11 Maverick models: retired legacy duplicate listings, 301'd each to its correct-priced twin.

Listed 2 new Kyosho pre-orders: First Mini-Z Knight Rider K.I.T.T. and Fazer FZ02 Dodge Charger 1970.

Added Compatible Parts blocks linking 105 tune-up parts across 40 Maverick model product pages.

Added ItemList schema and 7 inbound internal links to the Kyosho Ultima guide; flushed a stale Rank Math cache that had left it out of the sitemap

Published /kyosho-ultima-guide/ comparing all five Kyosho Ultima versions with FAQPage schema, targeting kyosho ultima head terms

Listed Kyosho Ultima Pro Vintage Series (K.30626B) as a new pre-order product; Product schema resolves to schema.org/PreOrder

Raised Rlaarlo X12S Blue from £89.99 to £149.99; it had been selling below the £99.99 landed cost.

Rewrote 730 thin spare-part titles to include brand, part number and model fitment; slugs unchanged.

Retired 1,100 duplicate Absima product listings; 301s consolidate each pair onto the better-ranking URL.

Replaced placeholder slugs on 6 product URLs with descriptive ones; 301s added from old URLs.

Added RC Toys category under Models with 83 new TEC-TOY toy-grade RC product pages and a TEC-TOY brand page.

Homepage hero: Escort RS Cosworth slide now links both nitro and Flux brushless product pages; brighter GT3 RS image.

Homepage hero: new first slide linking the Kyosho Fazer D2 Silvia S13 pre-order; GT3 RS moves to slide 2.

Listed Kyosho Fazer D2 Nissan Silvia S13 Tuned Purple drift Readyset (K.34503T1B) as a new pre-order product page.

Added site-wide footer link to RC car servicing and repairs page on all WordPress pages and the homepage.

Added internal link from RC car diagnostics tool to the new servicing and repairs landing page.

Launched RC car servicing and repairs landing page with price table, 9 FAQs and Service plus FAQPage schema.

Rewrote Service & Repair product copy: inclusions, extras pricing, photo-first process, turnaround; new booking-intent title and meta.

Added primary category link beside SKU in the product page buy box on all WordPress-served PDPs.

Rebuilt /mega-sale/ layout: single H1 hero, products moved above copy, new guide with category links and FAQs below grid.

Rewrote /mega-sale/ meta title and description to target rc clearance sale and rc car deals; retitled page RC Clearance Sale.

Product page breadcrumb now links each product's primary category instead of /shop/, across all WordPress-served PDPs.

H1s on those 112 brand pages now match their new SERP titles instead of generated brand-plus-category headings.

Hand-written titles and meta descriptions on 112 more brand pages, naming each brand's real product lines and searched models.

Brand pages now emit og:type website instead of article, which let Google show a 2025 date in results.

Brand page H1s now match their SERP titles instead of the bare brand name, across 145 brand pages.

Replaced 'Brand UK – Radio-Controlled.co.uk | UK Stockist' title template on 130 other brand pages with product-mix-based titles and descriptions.

KKPIT brand page now titled and headed as authorised UK dealer, naming KBT Beetle, XNR, KONE and KPM ranges.

Rewrote titles and meta descriptions on the 15 highest-impression brand pages around their search queries and real model lines.

Added free LiPo gift offer box under stock line on all £100+ product pages; buy with a second item.

Added Show more to brand landing Parts tabs, loading all brand parts 24 at a time; first 12 exclude out-of-stock.

Fixed empty Parts & Accessories tab on brand landing pages; now lists up to 12 brand parts products.

Added 107 held-stock clearance products to /mega-sale/ with new sale prices; removed 16 out-of-stock listings.

All 160 /brand-landing/ brand pages now served from Cloudflare edge via Lightning; content, canonicals, schema unchanged

Archive /page/N/ duplicates now 301 to ?view=all; view=all pages self-canonical, making every category product crawlable.

Cleaned RC drift cars category: moved 45 engines, buggies, touring cars out; added 8 missing drift cars.

Split duplicated terms: /site-policies/ is now Terms & Conditions, /shipping-returns/ Delivery & Returns, cross-linked by section.

Rewrote the Privacy Policy (2022 generator text) with real company details, processors, UK GDPR rights and cookie statement.

Expired Flash Sale page replaced with a clearance notice and set to noindex while no sale is running.

Unified dispatch cut-off (2pm UK), carriers (Royal Mail/DPD) and support hours across homepage, PDPs, basket and checkout.

Fixed Terms page CSS leaking as visible text and meta description; filled blank Last updated on Shipping & Returns.

Five empty brand pages (ARRMA, Losi, Axial, Spektrum, Futaba) now steer to in-stock alternatives; dropped false UK Stockist titles.

Fixed homepage Clearance and returns links (were 404s) and removed the expired Flash Sale from the main menu.

Restocked 8 HPI products (nano-TTR BMWs, Savage X 4.6, XL 5.9, Stage-D24 Supra blue) to match Vestergaard stock.

New product page: HPI Stage-D24 2024 Toyota GR Supra Prominence Red 1:24 RWD drift RTR at £119.99.

Homepage hero carousel: new first slide linking the Kyosho Fazer Mk2 Porsche 911 GT3 RS Lizard Green pre-order.

New product page: Kyosho Fazer Mk2 Porsche 911 GT3 RS Lizard Green 1:10 Readyset, pre-order at £269.99.

Added HPI Savage X Flux V2 GT-6 to Monster Trucks, 1/8th, £400-500, Kit Bundles categories; battery bundle tier added.

Merged 2 duplicate HPI Savage X Flux listings into the V2 GT-6 page with 301 redirects.

Removed Mini-Z Parts and Kyosho Parts from 88 Autoscale bodies; those archives shrank by 80 and 53.

Moved Autoscale category from Parts & Accessories to Models > RC Cars > mini-z; 301 added for old archive URL.

Added official Kyosho product photography to 4 Autoscale body listings that previously had no image.

Capped Lightning RC regional cache at 60s and added an on-demand purge endpoint; Woo edits now reach pages in ~70s not 3 days.

Added Mini Z and Autoscale Bodies to main nav under Models > RC Cars; 83 bodies joined mini-z category.

Set primary category to mini-z on 88 Kyosho Autoscale products; breadcrumbs now read mini-z not Kyosho Parts.

Added Kyosho Fazer D2 Tundra Drift as the homepage hero's lead slide, displacing the HPI Stage-D10.

Added new product page for HPI Stage-D24 Toyota GR Supra 1:24 drift car, listed as pre-order.

Added real product images to 540 products that had none or showed the holding placeholder.

Added Disallow: /wp-json/ to robots.txt across 7 crawler groups, stopping 401s from WordPress REST routes

Retired 24 Kyosho Autoscale bodies no longer supplied; marked out of stock, pages kept live.

Created Autoscale product category under Mini-Z Parts and assigned 88 products to it.

Added /autoscale/ collection landing page with live product grids for 88 Kyosho Autoscale bodies.

Listed six new Hobby Plus DKR-4 Fortis products; six new indexable product pages under RC Crawlers.

Pre-order products no longer emit schema.org InStock; 2,864 backorder items now correctly PreOrder

Kyosho product pages (1,810 URLs) now rendered at Cloudflare edge, not WooCommerce; warm loads 0.2-0.8s

Repriced 127 HB Racing spares to supplier RRP and marked 16 discontinued lines out of stock.

Linked Kyosho option parts to their parent model pages via compatible-parts blocks; 193 products cross-linked.

Moved 166 rebranded products out of Kyosho Parts into their own brand parts categories.

Rebranded 167 products off Kyosho to Arrowmax, Sanwa, Reds Racing, Team Orion and others in both brand schemas.

Reverted 254 Kyosho accessories wrongly marked discontinued; they are still supplied and back in stock.

Created 28 new Kyosho product pages for in-stock spares and models missing from the catalogue.

Moved 492 Kyosho products from in-stock to pre-order after supplier stock check; schema availability now BackOrder.

Marked 827 discontinued Kyosho products out of stock; pages kept live with Discontinued badge and alternatives.

Retired 163 CML-discontinued products: out of stock, pages kept published to preserve rankings.

Set 1,244 CML out-of-stock products to out of stock on RCUK; backorders closed so they are unbuyable.

Changed dispatch copy from 48hr to 3-4 day on 3,944 Absima-supplied product pages across six brands.

Switched 14 Kyosho September-release products from out-of-stock to pre-order; schema availability now BackOrder.

Recategorised Fazer D2 AE86 off mini-z, 1:28th and Under 50 facets; it is a 240 pound 1:10 car.

Moved 6 Kyosho Mini-Z products and 1 resin model out of generic Kyosho Parts into mini-z and Diecast categories.

Replaced empty placeholder descriptions with full copy on 9 Kyosho Mini-Z and die-cast product pages.

Removed five child age-category links from adults-14 copy; added 11 adult-relevant category links instead.

Replaced 54-word boilerplate on adults-14 category with 400 words covering adult, speed and 4x4 intent.

Changed adults-14 category H1 from facet label 'Adults 14+' to 'RC Cars for Adults' matching search intent.

Added discontinued notice linking to the electric VE version on two Kyosho USA-1 Nitro product pages.

Absima product pages now advertise 48hr delivery only, replacing the 24hr-or-48hr line across 3,129 PDPs.

Added FLISHRC AH-1 Cobra White & Red as slide 2 of 9 in the homepage hero carousel.

Added the new White & Red Cobra to the BNF/RTF cross-link panel on both FLISHRC Cobra BNF pages.

Published new FLISHRC AH-1 Cobra White & Red RTF product page with 22 original alt-tagged photos.

Homepage mobile Lighthouse 69 to 83; LCP cut 12.0s to 4.3s via responsive images and font preload changes.

301-redirected four retired Maverick Scout-24 colour URLs plus two renamed slugs to the merged parents.

Merged six standalone Maverick Scout-24 products into two variable products with three colour variations each.

Homepage now served by headless Next.js worker; same markup and URLs, WordPress keeps all other pages.

Homepage briefly served by headless worker with 404 assets; reverted within minutes, rendering restored.

Repaired 1,066 product primary categories pointing at price/age facets, deleted terms, or unassigned categories.

Set primary category on 12,713 products lacking one; breadcrumb schema now names the real category.